@article{ref1,
title="A new public health psychology to mend the chasm between public health and clinical care",
journal="American psychologist, The",
year="2020",
author="Halkitis, Perry N.",
volume="75",
number="9",
pages="1289-1296",
abstract="Emerging global health challenges and ever-growing health disparities indicate a need to improve the manner by which we deliver health prevention and health care  services to people and the populations in which they are nested. One means of  addressing the physical, psychological, and social health of people is to more fully  and intelligently integrate the social and structural deterministic perspectives of  health inherent in public health efforts with the individualistic and behavioral  focus of medicine. This integration of public health with clinical care is  predicated on the notion that people are burdened by socially produced psychological  states that undermine their health. To date, neither public health nor clinical care  has effectively attended to psychosocial conditions such as fear, loneliness,  medical mistrust, powerlessness, and stigma, all of which fuel disease. Psychological principles provide the means of coalescing the efforts of public  health with clinical care by addressing these very psychosocial stressors that  undermine health and perpetuate disease. In this regard, there is a need to reorient  the discipline of public health psychology. Such a conceptualization of health and  well-being provides a framework to both identify and intervene on these conditions. Public health psychologists should collaborate directly with both public health  experts and clinical providers to develop tools which effectively ameliorate the  psychosocial drivers of disease. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights  reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-066X",
doi="10.1037/amp0000743",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000743"
}